GRE Word List
EMETIC
an agent that induces vomiting
The meaning of the word emetic is an agent that induces vomiting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |